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USAFA Coach's comments

Posted On October 26, 2005 4:18 PM By Phil in Navy Football

Zoomie coach Fisher DeBerry made comments regarding his team's lack of speed that, at the very least, are racially insensitive, and at most rank up there with those statements made by Howard Cossell and Jimmy the Greek. Without question, he should resign from his post. This incident is his second in about a year. The first is the fact he had a banner in his teams locker which stated "I am a Christian first and last. ... I am a member of Team Jesus Christ." There is more unrest at the Hotel Colorado Springs as religious intolerance has become the crisis of the moment there following sexual harassment and alleged rape incidents from the past few years.
As for football, Air Force has traditionally been in the top 3-4 teams in its conference and almost guaranteed a bowl game. Now, with scholarship limitations, I think AF is seeing its conference become better because kids from the Rocky Mountain states aren't going to school out of state anymore, they're staying at CSU, Wyoming, Utah, BYU, etc. The level of talent DeBerry was recruiting used to be good enough to compete in the WAC/MWC but not anymore. They must look at how they recruit and who they recruit. They had a tremendous linebacker a few years ago that was named captain as a sophomore and he transferred to Ohio State after that season.
First, they've seen Navy take away what they believe is their CIC trophy each of the last 3 years and now, they see the rest of the conference passing them. It boils down to recruiting talent and if he hasn't recruited the talent he needs, that's his fault, not the fact a team has more of this type of player or that type of player, or has more diversity than his team. As a leader and teacher of men and women (I'm assuming there are some associated with the football team in some manner), DeBerry has to be held accountable for making these types of remarks not once but twice within two days with his termination, plain and simple.

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